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Definition of Self-loader
1. Noun. A firearm that reloads itself.
Specialized synonyms: Automatic Firearm, Automatic Gun, Automatic Weapon, Semiautomatic Firearm
Generic synonyms: Firearm, Piece, Small-arm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-loader
Literary usage of Self-loader
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pistol and Revolver Shooting by Abraham Lincoln Artman Himmelwright (1915)
"In both cases pistol should be used as a self-loader, and in the second the
cartridge may be removed and wiped, then reloaded. ..."
2. Sporting Firearms by Horace Kephart (1912)
"So long as a self- loader is used only with weak ammunition it can be fired a
... I do not regard the extra quickness of the self-loader as of so much value ..."
3. A French-English Military Technical Dictionary by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1899)
"self-loader; fusil a , (em. a.) rifle to which a loader may lie attached,or
requiring a louder; ..."
4. Rifles and Rifle Shooting by Charles Askins (1912)
"The last of our present models to give way should be the single-shot and the
double barrel—the one because a self-loader cannot improve upon a single- shot ..."
5. The International Military Digest Annual by Cornélis De Witt Willcox (1919)
"... shall be a self-loader rather than both self-loading and self-firing. It is
evident that the Americans do not hold the opinion that the improved degree ..."
6. The Game Laws in Brief: A Digest of the Statutes of the United States and by United States, Canada (1911)
"The Winchester Self-Loader will shoot any standard load from a " Blank " to the
heaviest with certainty and safety, without tinkering the action. ..."
7. Play and Recreation for the Open Country by Henry Stoddard Curtis (1914)
"It serves to suggest that this is not the place for the mowing machine and the
hay tedder or the self-loader. It makes of the yard an institution, ..."
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